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Book Title: History Of Dearborn County Indiana

36	DEARBORN  COUNTY,  INDIANA.
sufficient for the purpose at hand to state that the treaty of Paris, which
terminated the war in 1763, left France without any of her former possessions on
the mainland of America.

PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY (1763-64).

    With the English in control of America east of the Mississippi river and the
French regime forever ended, the Indians next command the attention of the
historian who deals with the Northwest Territory. The French were undoubtedly
responsible for stirring up their former Indian allies and Pontiac's conspiracy
must be credited to the influence of that nation. This formidable uprising was
successfully overthrown by Henry Bouquet, who led an expedition in 1764 into the
present state of Ohio and compelled the Wyandots, Delawares and Shawnees to sue
for peace.

NORTHWEST  TERRITORY  AND   QUEBEC  ACT.

    From 1764 to 1774, no events of particular importance occurred within the
territory north of the Ohio river, but in the latter year (June 22, 1774)
England then at the breaking point, with the colonies, passed the Quebec act,
which attached this territory to the province of Quebec for administrative
purposes. This intensified the feeling of resentment which the colonies bore
against their mother country and is given specific mention in their list of
grievances which they enumerated in their Declaration of Independence. The
Revolutionary War came on at once and this act, of course, was never put into
execution.

REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD  (1775-83).

    During the War for Independence (1775-1783), the various states with claims
to western lands agreed with the Continental Congress to surrender their claims
to the national government. In fact, the Articles of Confederation were not
signed until all of the states had agreed to do this and Maryland withheld her
assent to the articles until March I, 1780, on this account. In accordance with
this agreement New York ceded her claim to the United States in 1780, Virginia
in 1784, Massachusetts in 1785 and Connecticut in 1786, although the latter
state excepted a one-hundred-and-twenty-mile strip of three million five hundred
thousand acres bordering on Lake Erie. This strip was formally relinquished in
1800, with the understanding that the


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